English > thistle: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | Any of numerous plants of the family Compositae and especially of the genera ... / genera Carduus and Cirsium and Onopordum having prickly-edged leaves. |
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| Member of | Compositae, family Compositae, Asteraceae, family Asteraceae, aster family | plants with heads composed of many florets |
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| Narrower | blessed thistle, sweet sultan, Cnicus benedictus | annual of Mediterranean to Portugal having hairy stems and minutely spiny-toothed leaves and large heads of yellow flowers |
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| carline thistle | A thistle of the genus Carlina |
| cotton thistle, woolly thistle, Scotch thistle, Onopordum acanthium, Onopordon acanthium | biennial Eurasian white hairy thistle having pale purple flowers |
| field thistle, Cirsium discolor | stout North American thistle with purplish-pink flower heads |
| golden thistle | Any of several spiny Mediterranean herbs of the genus Scolymus having yellow flower heads |
| melancholy thistle, Cirsium heterophylum, Cirsium helenioides | perennial stoloniferous thistle of northern Europe with lanceolate basal leaves and usually solitary heads of reddish-purple flowers |
| musk thistle, nodding thistle, Carduus nutans | Eurasian perennial naturalized in eastern North America having very spiny white cottony foliage and nodding musky crimson flower heads |
| plume thistle, plumed thistle | Any of numerous biennial to perennial herbs with handsome purple or yellow or occasionally white flower heads |
| welted thistle, Carduus crispus | European biennial introduced in North America having flower heads in crowded clusters at ends of branches |
| Broader | weed | Any plant that crowds out cultivated plants |
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| Spanish | cardo |
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| Catalan | card |
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